On Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 at 11AM, Norfolk Mayor Paul D. Fraim alongside Mission Executive Director, Linda Bashford Vaughan, Board President, James R. Herndon, Harvey Lindsay of Harvey Lindsay Associates, Norfolk City Councilman, Barclay C. Winn, Capital Campaign Chairman and Board member John DeVan and Rev. Kirk T. Houston, Sr., Pastor of Gethsemane Community Fellowship Baptist Church broke ground for the a new men's shelter on the Mission's 24 acre campus. The groundbreaking begins the first phase of construction for a 74,820 square foot facility that will provide 275 beds for homeless men in the Hampton Roads community. In addition to emergency shelter beds, the new facility will include beds for men in the Mission's Discipleship and Training Program, Single Resident Occupany (SRO's) beds, a kitchen, shower and laundry facilities, a Day Room, a Chapel with counseling rooms, two classrooms, storage, and an infirmary. The much needed facility will replace the Interim Shelter where each night after the evening meal tables are taken down, chairs are put up for evening chapel services and then taken down for sleeping mats for the 30-70 men that sleep on the floor each evening due to lack of bed space. On completion of the new men's shelter, the current men's shelter will provide 85 beds for the Women's and Family Shelter, currently housing 28 single women and four families. The Interim Women's and Family Shelter will become transitional housing. $1.2 million is still needed to complete the $15 million Capital Campaign for the project.